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Getting Ready 14

Getting Ready 14 It’s time to turn and look at the US: Vietnam as a destination for US tourists, Vietnam as the place where Vietnam vets come from, and the US labor movement, which goes about organizing itself in a way that is very different from Vietnam. When people hear that we are going toContinue reading “Getting Ready 14”

Getting Ready 13

Getting ready 13 I have an appointment for a phone conversation with Angie Ngoc Tran who teaches at CSU Monterey Bay. She emailed me a link this interview, from July 2014. In the interview, she describes a day when young men riding motorbikes, with flags, incited riots at factories in industrial zones, paid workers toContinue reading “Getting Ready 13”

Getting Ready (12)

On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:38 PM, Hollis Stewart wrote: Helena, I have started reading your blog and will respond to the observations and questions that you present. Just below is the address for the blog that Leanna and I published while we were in Vietnam. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did inContinue reading “Getting Ready (12)”

Getting Ready (11)

Getting Ready (11) The conference to which so many representatives of so many nations came was in 1965. Joe points out that many of the countries that sent delegates were countries that were still under colonial control. He also tells me that it would have been illegal to bring this book into the US atContinue reading “Getting Ready (11)”

Getting Ready (10)

Getting Ready (10) Four items have come in from my request on the UALE (United Association for Labor Education) listserve for examples of undergraduate statistics, probability and math courses or syllabi. An exercise from Toby Higbie at UCLA about big data where he asks them to visualize the history of the labor movement, one withContinue reading “Getting Ready (10)”

Getting Ready (9)

Getting Ready (9) We went to Iowa, Des Moines, visiting Joe’s brother Jan and his wife Janice. Everything was green with little breezes tickling the leaves of the giant burr oaks. People ask, “How are things in California?” They’ve read about the drought. We went to Joe’s reunion at Grennell. When we told people aboutContinue reading “Getting Ready (9)”

Getting Ready (8)

Went to the Berkeley city library. All the contemporary books on Vietnam trade unions are “unavailable,” even using Link+. However, I was able to order three books by Le Duan (1907-1986) written in 1960s-1970s. My access to the U of Illinois library is all set up, thanks to a lot of help from people there, but I won’tContinue reading “Getting Ready (8)”

Getting Ready (7) Sergio Finardi

I have come back, on New Years Eve 2015, to read this again and to listen to Sergio. We received news last month from his partner, Giamila, that he died of lung cancer. We have lost a good friend and a good colleague and someone from whom I always learned, and who was not reluctantContinue reading “Getting Ready (7) Sergio Finardi”

Getting Ready (6)

Getting Ready (6) Readings: An article by Angie Ngoc Tran, who teaches at CSU Monterey Bay: Vietnamese Labor-Management Relations: Restructuring and Coping with the Global Economic Crisis. This is from 2009. Resolution of the Tenth Congress of the VGCL in November 2008 demonstrates a changing attitude within the party state and the unions towards theContinue reading “Getting Ready (6)”